Sentences with phrase «formal painterly concerns»

Guston's post-50's studio was a menagerie of masterful deconstruction and then obliteration of formal painterly concerns.

Not exact matches

Sillman's work employs formal dualities, such as color versus line or flat versus recessive space, as a way to push painterly concerns to their extremes.

Works by John Mason, Ricky Swallow, and Shana Lutker are mired in 20th - century formal concerns, and Louise Fishman, Jacqueline Humphries, Dona Nelson, and Amy Sillman present a chorus of large painterly, Abstract Expressionist work whose relation to recent strains of American art seems oddly forced.

In their «absence of any isolated and obvious content, landscape and still life subjects have a l so been seen as forerunners of the formal and painterly concerns of abstract art.

In each work, the artist employs formal dualities from the art historical canon — namely, narration versus abstraction, color versus line, flat versus recessive space, and painting versus drawing — not as a means to a conceptual end, but rather as a method to push these painterly concerns to their extremes.